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The cookie popup is terrible, I agree.

Some pros: Being able to force social networks to provide me with a physical copy of my data is alone a reason to get an EU citizenship. I don't even use the social networks, i just demand my data every 3 months to FB, Tinder and Linkedin to punish them for being so aggressive in their spamming and tracking.

Being safe from throttling, censorship and all the nice stuff that US ISPs are going to feed american citizens with is also pretty nice.

Also very efficiently getting my money back when companies try to scam me.

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Ah also no roaming across countries and having aligned ALL phone producers on the micro USB phone charger standard have been really nice news

Is that slowing the uptake of USB-C with its standardized Power Delivery fast charging?

What does Google ship with Pixels? The same USB-C fast charger and USB-C cable, then toss in a micro-USB to USB-C adapter for regulatory compliance?

Samsung includes the micro-USB to USB-C adapter. Not sure about Google.

My Nexus 6P (France, Dec. 2015) came with

1) USB-C fast charger

2) USB-C cable

3) USB-C to USB-A cable

No adapter whatsoever. I assume it's the exact same as anywhere in the world. Therefore it seems USB-C is considered an acceptable next standard for phone charging in the EU.

On a side-related note, I wonder why Apple was never subjected to charging standards in the EU.

It was voluntary. The EU said sort this out or we will make a standard and require it. I think iPhones did come with an adapter for the standard charger at some point.

IIRC they threatened to regulate and then manufacturers "voluntarily" agreed to use Micro-USB.

I'm an EU citizen and was not aware of this "demand for data" thing. What does physical copy mean? Are they going to send me 20 boxes full of papers?

Not physical paper, but you can download all the data they have on you at any time if you want.

The GDPR specifically addresses only a copy of your data in a widely used digital format.

I believe in Germany you can have someone send all your private data once a year in physical copy and you only need to pay for undue transport costs.

You are allowed to get a request of all personal data that someone/some company has one you. So you can contact Facebook and say "Please give me a copy of all the data you hold on me" and they have to give it to you. When Max Schrems did they first, Facebook did send a CD with a ~1,000 page PDF "print out". It garnered some media attention since it shows how much they do collect on people./

The maximum they can charge is set in law and is about €5.

More details for Facebook here: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data...

Wow. What sort of data do they send?

This varies in strange ways. I dont know how facebook does this and if i could get more but i have seen facebook datasets from three people including mine.

Usualy it is all photos and vids yove uploaded, comments etc.

Mine was most complete. Including some sort of keywords tags i am interested in. Not things i followed but what fb thinks i like.

Other datasets did not include this but one included all the times someone connected to the account including IP and location.

You can do this with phone companies in Denmark, and you'll get your location history. As they are required to keep that.

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